Nippon Animation

Nippon Animation K. K. (Japanese日本 アニメーション 株式会社, Nippon Animēshon kabushiki - gaisha ) is a Japanese animation studio that anime series were also known outside Japan.

  • 2.1 TV series
  • 2.2 Other Anime productions

History

Precursor Zuiyo Enterprises

Today's Nippon Animation was created from the animation studio Zuiyo Enterprises (瑞鷹 エンタープライズ), which produced several cartoon series in the 1970s. One of these series was the first of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki jointly created and produced by Zuiyo Enterprise anime series Heidi after a novel by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, which came into Japanese in 1977 and the German television in early January 1974. The series was initially very popular in Japan and later in Europe and was even published in the middle of the 1980s in the U.S. on VHS. However Zuiyo Enterprise was due to high production costs soon in financial difficulties. 1975 Zuiyo Enterprise was divided into Zuiyo, which retained the rights to the series, and Nippon Animation, under whose name the productions ran away.

New beginning as Nippon Animation

Officially, the Nippon Animation K. K. founded by its CEO Koichi Motohashi in June 1975. Even at times of Zuiyo Enterprise tried the studio also the first international Anime cooperation, however, was met with only short-term success. Directed by Hiroshi Saitō created with the participation of the German ZDF, the Austrian ORF and the Kirch group from 1972 to 1979, the three series Wickie and the strong men, Maya the Bee and Pinocchio. In the years 1983 to 1985 was followed by Alice in Wonderland ( Director: Taku Sugiyama ), a further co-production, before this form of direct cooperation was abandoned.

The success of Heidi prompted the 1975 renamed Nippon Animation Studio establishing the project World Masterpiece Theater ( WMT short ). From 1975, a television series on the basis of an international literary work was produced under that name every year, so about Niklaas, a boy from Flanders based on a novel of the Englishwoman Marie Louisa de la Ramee, Marco for a book by the Italian Edmondo De Amicis or Anne the red hair on a novel by the Canadian Lucy Maud Montgomery. Hayao Miyazaki left Nippon Animation in 1979 during the production of Anne of Green Gables, but the studio was without him still successful. By 1997, annual new animated series developed on the basis of children's and young adult books. Although many outstanding animation artists cooperated in this series and their international popularity continues unabated even today, Nippon Animation had the WMT project in 1997 due to financial problems and declining ratings set. Launched in early 2007 with Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette (レ·ミゼラブル 少女 コゼット, Mizeraburu Re: Shōjo Kozetto ) another series under the World Masterpiece Theater label.

On December 28, 2009, a YouTube channel was opened on the successively the WMT series to be published.

Productions

Published in German productions are listed under its German title.

TV series

More Anime productions

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